A slim white carton with a die-cut window down one side, through which twelve small tubes stand in a row. Above them the jousting-knights mark and FABER-CASTELL, since 1761; below, Creative Studio on the foot band. The front reads Watercolours and repeats it as Aquarellfarben, Aquarelle, Acuarelas and Suluboya, with 12 Colours in a blue roundel. A watercolour Big Ben and a London Underground roundel run down the face.

Look at what is printed on the tubes themselves, because that is what the money is for. The labels read Ultramarine, Cobalt Hue, Mauve, Leaf Green and Cadmium Red — pigment names, not blue, purple, green and red. When a tutorial or a book tells you to lay ultramarine into a shadow and drop mauve into the wet edge, you can follow it exactly rather than guessing which of your blues was meant.

It is the dearest per colour of the tube sets we carry. Rs. 2,000 for twelve is Rs. 166.67 a tube, against Rs. 62.08 for our TiTi Water Colors set and Rs. 64.58 for our 12 Water Colors Tubes Kit. If price per tube is the deciding number, this is not the set — it is the set for someone who wants named colours they can repeat.

One thing we will not do is guess a figure that is not on the pack. The carton does not print a tube volume anywhere on the front, and neither the window nor the side panel gives one, so we are not going to publish a millilitre number for it. Ask us on WhatsApp and we will check the stock we hold before you order.

If it is Faber-Castell watercolour you are after in another form, we stock the Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils at Rs. 1,750 and the Goldfaber Aqua watercolour pencils at Rs. 6,300 — the same idea of laying colour dry and pulling it into a wash with a wet brush.

We list this set from 8 years up. The Safencia price is Rs. 2,000 with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan, and stock, your city and delivery charges are confirmed on WhatsApp before dispatch.

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